Just Best Friends: Chapter 1
Neji woke to his alarm clock and the blinding sun light that was shining through his bed room windows. He sat up and started to get ready for school.
"Good morning Neji" Hinata greeted as they met up in the kitchen.
"Morning" He said nodding.
They hopped in Neji's car and started to drive over to Tenten's to pick her up.
"Hey" Tenten said smiling.
Neji nodded and started up the car to drive his cousin and his best friend to school, two people he loved very much, he could recall the day he met Tenten, they were at the ripe age of 7 years old when Hinata had Tenten over for a sleep over, he remembered still thinking girls had cooties and how they begged him to play house with them, he was the only guy they had to play the dad. He laughed to himself; he could never have imagined him and Tenten being such good friends.
When they arrived at the high school Tenten's boy friend Shikamaru was there to give her his morning hello which consisted of kissing. Hinata and Neji usually didn't stick around for that and they started to make their way to their classes. Neji still didn't understand what Tenten liked about Shikamaru, he smoked and more than half the time looked like he hadn't taken a shower. "Neji" Hinata said as they were about to part.
"What?" He asked.
"Can you please go out with Tenten? She's starting to smell like smoke" She said half joking and half serious.
"Why don't you just get Tenten an air freshener?" He said jokingly as he walked to the other way to his first period History class.
Hinata sighed, she'd been trying to convince Neji to get with Tenten for a while now, every time he just shoved the idea off with a joke or simply used the "just friends" excuse. She was determined though; Hinata was going make sure that the two of them got together.
Neji arrived in his English class and was eventually joined by Tenten when the bell rang moments later. "Hey" She said as she sat in the desk next to him.
Hinata was right, Tenten did smell like smoke "Hinata wasn't lying when she said you were starting to smell like smoke" he said as he tried to fan the scent away from his nose.
Tenten grabbed the collar of her shirt and brought it to her nose, "Ugh!" Tenten complained as the stench burned her nostrils "And he told me he was going to quit smoking".
Neji sighed, why was it that girls wanted to fix guys? "I would have worked on trying to get him to take a shower first" Neji said.
"Neji!" she said defending her boy friend.
"I was just kidding!" He lied.
"Okay" Tenten said satisfied.
The end of the day came and Neji rode home alone because Tenten planned to get a rode home with Shikamaru and Hinata was studying with Naruto. He took the long way home enjoying his time in solitude, and thought of his friends who all had someone they were dating and probably hanging with their girl friend/ boy friend, of course having a girl friend might be nice once in a while, but he'd already been in relationships before, he was happier single. Just as he pulled into the driveway to the Hyuuga household he got a text. "Hey, what are you doing tonight? -Sasuke" he read to himself aloud.
"Nothing. Why?" Neji typed onto his phone.
Seconds later Neji's phone rang. "Hey" Sasuke said on the other side of the phone sounding irritable.
"What do you want?"
Sasuke sighed "Do you want to go see a movie with me, Sakura and Sakura's friend?"
"Sakura's putting you up to this?" Neji asked knowing the obvious answer.
"No" Sasuke said, clearly making it known that Sakura was listening.
Neji knew he might regret it, but what was there to lose? He didn't have anything going on tonight, "I'll go. What time?"
He heard Sakura let out a squeal "7 o'clock we'll come pick you up be ready!" Sakura said as she ended the call.
Neji put his phone in his pocket and headed inside.
7 o'clock came and Neji made his way down stairs. "Where are you going?" Hinata asked as Neji went through the living room.
"Movies" He answered.
"Movies? With who?" she asked curiously.
"Sasuke, Sakura, and Sakura's friend" He said quickly as he made his way to the door.
"Who's-" Hinata said before getting cut off when the front door was shut.
Neji took the back seat in car where he sat next to Sakura's friend who greeted him with a smile. "Neji, that's my friend Ami" Sakura said introducing them.
They nodded toward each other and took a moment to briefly and nonchalantly look over each other. Neji had to admit, Ami was quite attractive, blue eyes and long brown hair, and not that he's shallow, but she did have a nice body. Sakura let out a small sigh and was set to get them talking. "So, Neji you know you and Ami both play soccer" Sakura said as Sasuke took a second to glance over at Sakura and he knew tonight was going to long.
"Oh" Neji said taking the hint "What school do you play for?"
"North Kohana High School, I'm center forward" She said glad and relieved that they had something in common.
The conversation went on and eventually they ended up at the movie theater where they went to buy their tickets. "What movie are we going to see?" Sasuke asked.
Sakura already knew that the horror movie thing had been overdone and decided to suggest "The Notebook". When she voiced her idea there really was no choice, so everyone nodded in agreement.
After they had bought popcorn and drinks they took their seats in the back row, where Neji and Ami sat in the row in front of Sakura and Sasuke. Sakura made sure to take a seat directly behind Neji so she could watch how the date would go. "I hate these kinds of movies…." Ami complained under her breath as she took a bite of popcorn.
"Me too" Neji agreed.
She leaned her mouth into his ear to make sure Sakura couldn't hear and whispered "Let's go to another movie".
He nodded, "As soon as the lights go out" he confirmed.
The movie started and they cleverly sneaked out when Sakura was distracted by Sasuke's lips. When they made it out popcorn and all they laughed, high fived and went in search of a comedy.
When they found a movie they walked in quietly snuck in and took a seat just in time to make the beginning of the movie. After they had laughed themselves to tears and the credits came on, they left the theater just in time to see Sakura and Sasuke exit The Notebook. "Where did you guys go?" Sakura asked annoyed.
"We went to see a comedy" Neji said.
"Well, I'm very disappointed" Sakura said.
Ami and Neji glanced at each other and pretended to be ashamed. "I'm so sorry Sakura" Ami said.
"You should be" Sakura said as they began walking to the car.
They stopped at Neji's first, since it was closest and Ami got out of the car to walk him to the door. When they got to the front door of Neji's house they stopped and faced each other. "I had a lot of fun tonight" Ami said laughing as she remembered the comedy they watched.
"Yeah, me too" He agreed.
"We should hang out some time; do you have your cell phone?" She asked.
He handed her his phone and watched as she punched in his number. "Well, bye, call me okay?" She said.
He nodded as she held her arms out and hugged him. She pulled out and kissed him on the cheek. Neji looked at her surprised and watched her as she walked away. The car drove away and Neji walked in to see Hinata on the couch. "Hey" Hinata said as he came in.
Neji joined her on the couch, "Hey".
"What movie did you see?" She asked.
"The Notebook and a comedy"
Hinata snickered "Sakura's idea?"
He nodded "I didn't really watch anything of it, but the beginning, Ami and I snuck out"
"Ami? Sakura set you up on a date?"
"Yeah"
End of chapter 1, this is my first Tenten/Neji fan fiction, hope you enjoyed it. :)